Kevin Lavery

Education Reporter

Kevin Lavery

Stacy Hoxsey
/ WKAR-MSU

Kevin Lavery is WKAR's Education reporter. In 2018, he began a year-long focus on the challenges of improving literacy in Michigan schools. He also reports general assignment stories, produces news features and interviews for Current State and serves as an alternate local host on NPR's "Morning Edition."

Prior to coming to WKAR in 2006, Lavery was a reporter at KWMU (St. Louis Public Radio), covering local politics, government, and biotechnology issues.

Lavery's journalism career began in the U.S. Navy. He studied journalism at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana; worked as news director and television producer for American Forces Network-Japan; and served in Antarctica as radio program director at the McMurdo Station Research Facility on Ross Island.

Many public religious services around the world are still on hold during the coronavirus pandemic. Still, people are finding ways to express their spirituality. Two university professors are capturing the sound of those moments. WKAR’s Kevin Lavery spoke with Michigan State University professor Amy DeRogatis and Ohio State University professor Isaac Weiner about the American Religious Sounds Project.

Lansing-area high schools are finalizing their plans to honor the Class of 2020. On Friday, Holt High School will put on its annual Senior Breakfast. But as the coronavirus pandemic continues, the event will look nothing like it has in the past.